It is of importance that I write an article on “Aging While Black”. African American’s are top of the list with things that are bad and on the bottom of the list with things that are good. Especially when it comes to health. We have a high rate of chronic illness that can be corrected with diet and exercise. We must make it a top priorty of taking care of ourselves. We are poorer than everyone else, sicker than everyone else, move our bodies less than everyone else, unemployed more than anyone else, unhoused or do not have housing more than anyone else. When obesity was classified as a disease blacks were on top of the list. I was reading an article on glacoma and Africian Americans have this disease more than other races but no one knows why.
This is something that need the attention of black health care professionals. They need to go into their community and take better care of the people. Why did they go to college and get professional skills if they did not plan to come back to their communities and help people.
There should be health clinics in underserved communities so that the community can go there and get the services that they need without having to travel to a place where doctors are not experenced with wworking with this population
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